A Festivus Miracle: AI, Tech, & Crypto in 2026 12/23/25

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🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Ahead for AI and tech: commoditization and consolidation. CNBC’s Steve Kovach and former Facebook Chief Privacy Officer and General Counsel Chris Kelly map out the road ahead for tech’s most innovative companies. After a volatile year for crypto, investor Anthony Pompliano discusses asset prices and Coinbase’s latest acquisition of a prediction markets platform. Plus, Jim Beam has stopped bourbon production at its Kentucky facility for the next year, and the Kansas City Chiefs are moving. Happy Festivus! Steve Kovach - 17:54 Chris Kelly - 23:21 Anthony Pompliano - 31:45 In this episode: Anthony Pompliano, @APompliano Joe Kernen, @JoeSquawk Andrew Ross Sorkin, @andrewrsorkin Cameron Costa, @CameronCostaNY

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0:00.0	Bring in show music, please.
0:03.0	This is SquawkPod and I'm CNBC producer Cameron Costa.
0:08.0	On today's episode, What's Brewing for Tech and AI in 2026?
0:14.0	From Commodotization to Consolidation to Competition, Facebook's former general counsel and chief privacy officer Chris
0:22.8	Kelly joins us.
0:24.3	I do think that you'll see a number of Chinese players come to the four, that especially
0:28.9	if the Nvidia GPUs that are being sold to China now come online.
0:34.8	Then what awaits in 2026 trading after Coinbase's newest prediction markets acquisition?
0:40.9	Professional Capital Management's Anthony Pompliano says it's all about, well, everything.
0:47.0	One of the things that's really interesting is they're going after this everything exchange.
0:49.8	They basically want you to be able to buy public stocks, crypto, prediction markets, perps, everything
0:54.2	on one exchange.
0:55.3	Plus, a Uygovi pill has been approved.
0:59.3	Jim Beam is halting bourbon production in Kentucky for an entire year.
1:04.5	And the Chiefs will have a new home.
1:06.9	That's close to home.
1:08.5	Did you know that Missouri and Kansas were on opposite sides
1:11.2	in the Civil War Sorkin, which is weird?
1:14.1	That I did not know.
1:16.4	It's Tuesday, December 23rd.
1:18.7	Happy Festivus.
1:19.7	Christmas Adam, the day before, the night before Christmas.
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